LUNENBURG -- When your team has contagious hitting, it is felt from one through nine in the order. And when you get a 4-for-4 performance out of your No. 8 hitter, you really have it made.

The Lunenburg baseball team ripped 14 hits, including a 4-for-4, four-RBI effort out of left fielder Joe Kapp, in Wednesday's 14-5 win over visiting Oakmont Regional at Marshall Park.

Lunenburg improved to 4-2 on the season and 2-0 in Mid-Wach C, with undefeated Gardner coming to town Friday. Oakmont drops to 2-4 (1-2), traveling to Tyngsboro on Friday.

The Knights batted around in consecutive innings, putting the game out of reach before the shadows crept across the stone-dust diamond.

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Oakmont's Cam Brown connects for an RBI single during Wednesday's game against Lunenburg.

It sent 14 hitters to the dish in the first frame -- and consequently ran Oakmont starter Trevor Brown from the bump after the first nine hitters -- before only sending nine to the plate in the second.

Lunenburg plated eight runs in the first and three in the second.

"You score eight runs in the first, it makes it easy," said Lunenburg head coach Bob Robucchio. "It's the first time that our bats came alive this year. I'm happy that everyone, one through nine, hit today."

"We're still looking for our rotation, and we just don't have it yet," said Oakmont coach Steve Darling. "It's starting to come together, but we have a long way to go.

"Trevor was missing. He always has the velocity, but we put ourselves in a hole.

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In fact, Lunenburg had the bases loaded twice in the first inning and had only pushed one run across before a pair of fielder's choice grounders had Oakmont sitting at two outs. But a wild pitch with Jeremy Nash at the plate made it 2-0, before Nash walked to load the bases.

Kapp then singled sharply through the middle to bring in Cody Jacobs and Marc Poirier.

"He had a slow start, but we've made some adjustments with him and he's really going on a tear these last few games," Robucchio said of Kapp's effort.

"We didn't hit the ball hard in that first inning, but we found the spots and they dropped in."

Two hitters later, John Hinsley, up for the second time in the frame, singled through the left side to bring in Nash and Kapp.

Ryan Proctor scored as Rick Christian was pegged, before an error off the bat of Jim Basile -- who helped pad the lead with the a two-out, two-run double in the fourth -- brought in Hinsley.

It was enough for Christian to hold from the bump, as he went four full innings for the win. He struck out three Spartans and walked four while giving up four hits. He yielded all five Oakmont runs.

"Ricky pitched well, but he got tired, and then Marc (Poirier) came in and threw the ball hard," Robucchio said.

After Oakmont pulled a run back in the top of the second, Kapp started things off with an RBI hit to right to deliver Poirier from second. He went to second on Proctor's base knock, before Hinsley and Tim Sargent each had RBI hits to plate them.

Oakmont scored four in the fourth.

Jake Logan reached on an error before Isaac Marchant walked. Derrick Andrews then doubled both in on a 3-0 pitch to deep left. Andrews then scored on Russ Wiley's base hit to center.

"Derrick's been hitting the ball this year, and he's in the nine hole. Last year he didn't hit the ball, and this year he's seeing it well. We may have to change things up," Darling said.

Oakmont did manage to receive a solid outing out of Zach Batten, who relieved Cam Brown after he pitched 1 1-3 innings of relief.

"He was pretty good," Robucchio said of Batten. "There was a speed change there, and we didn't adjust to that right away."

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